The Fragmentation of Being
of properties, we could always add a clause to the definition of“is natural”requiring this. The more interesting upshot would be ...
can do the jobs that naturalness has been invoked to do, and hence in that respect, they do not differ in their theoretical role ...
even if we grant that both properties are necessarily coextensive. (The atheist has an easier time with this puzzle.) A plausibl ...
IV2 is no less plausible than IV1. IV2 is part of a nice picture according to which the maximally real serve as the complete sup ...
analysis of structure would be a highly disjunctive analysis: to be structural is to be charge or to be set-membership or to be. ...
there are at least two possible meanings for the unrestricted quantifier that are maximally real. This response requires that so ...
In what follows, I will not challenge premises 4 or 6. Since 3 and 5 are interim conclusions that follow validly from their pred ...
limited amount of comparability: perhaps a mildly sharp pen hurts less to touch than a seriously sharp wine hurts to taste. Is t ...
other categories: the logical form of the mode of being of a relation is more polyadic than that of the modes of being of the ot ...
least as much being as the others. An unusual view to be sure—presumably not Aristotle’s—but defensible. Aristotle’s claim that ...
7.6 Is Degree of Being the Prior Notion? We have explored arguments against the NVH that tried to establish that naturalness is ...
free variable,“ExΨ”is true if and only if“$x,x(Ψ)”is true. And to say that a property F is at least as natural as property G is ...
But let us provisionally grant this assumption. Then ideological parity will have been restored. In both cases, there is one pri ...
Finally, Sider claims that the entity-fundamentalist conflates claims about the fundamentality of an object’s existence with cla ...
7.9 Chapter Summary In this chapter, I argued that the naturalness of a property or relation is proportionate to the degree of b ...
8. Being and Ground 8.1 Introduction Anyone familiar with metaphysics as it is done in the analytic tradition at the time proxim ...
is in some way primitive. I will then discuss one split between proponents of ground, namely, whether it is a topic-neutral rela ...
on its intelligibility who have the burden of proof. (One presents ademandfor a definition when one doubts that the target in qu ...
might say that a relation is metaphysically primitive 3 just in case there is a fact F such that (i) F has the grounding relatio ...
parthood relations but I doubt that there is any illuminating definition that will tell us why these parthood relations are allp ...
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